They do that bc there's no mass transit station in Cupertino unlike Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View.
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If there was a connector line from there to say Sunnyvale Caltrain, the downtown would be able to handle more density.
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Almost all other Bay Area cities have similar requirements, as far as I'm aware. (And they're so painfully misconceived.)
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Mountain View is experimenting with lowering theirs. But the main objection in Cupertino is often that there's no Caltrain, VTA or BART.
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Apple is also an $800B co and if they were able to pressure the city to let them build a $5B donut, they could have pressured them to do
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Other things like plan shared transit better. It's a two-way negotiation and this one turned out poorly from a systems perspective (but
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Then again, Jobs always liked having closed, wholly controlled systems that didn't play with others).
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Stripe isn't an $800B co, but our experience has been that proposing even slightest deviation to code is miserable, soul-sapping experience.
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Apple had a totally different level of leverage. They account for something like 30% of the city's tax revenue base.
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AC2 happened bc Jobs threatened to leave. Imagine if he threatened to leave if they didn't do AC2 + match w some TOD.
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